So what does 5 miles of freshly paved rail-trail look like? Head out to the Olympic Peninsula with your bicycle and take a look.
The newest section of the constantly expanding Olympic Discovery Trail that’s open to the public runs between Camp Creek Trailhead on Cooper Ranch Road and a forest service road that crosses …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/25/new-path-for-bicycling-on-olympic-discovery-trail/
Slowly but surely, the Centennial Trail through Spokane is closing its gaps as it celebrates its 25-year anniversary.
Built along off-road paths and on-road shoulders between 1989 and 1991, the trail rolls for more than 37 miles along the Spokane River between the Idaho border, through the old world’s fair site downtown, and out to the rocky …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/18/more-off-road-trail-routes-completed-for-spokanes-centennial-trail/
The bicycle world lost one of its biggest fans this week when Robin Williams was found hanged in an apparent suicide on Monday.
Last year, Williams wrote at a Reddit Ask Me Anything:
“My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it’s mobile meditation.”
His love …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/15/robin-williams-cyclist/
King County has completed installing a cycle track to connect the gap between two eastside Seattle rail-trails — the Issaquah-Preston Trail and Preston-Snoqualmie Trail.
The cycle track, which is the first I can recall in unincorporated King County, runs for 0.7 mile along south side of SE High Point Way. It’s a two directional cycle …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/07/cycle-track-opens-to-connect-rail-trails-in-eastern-king-county/
Amber Travsky is the ride director for Tour de Wyoming, an annual week-long mass bicycle tour that for 18 years has ushered cyclists around the Cowboy State.
During this year’s tour of the Wind River Mountains, Travsky heard the words that no ride director wants to hear:
“Amber, someone’s been hit.”
She writes about the collision …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/05/the-words-no-mass-bike-ride-director-wants-to-hear/
“Seattle has banned drivers from turning right at one of the city’s busiest intersections, to protect the thousands of bicyclists passing through.” — Seattle Times
That temporary right-turn ban during road construction at the busy Mercer Street-Dexter Avenue intersection warranted front page play above the fold in this morning’s Seattle Times.
Making a road safer for …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/04/making-streets-safer-for-bicyclists-is-headline-news-in-seattle/
Emergency personnel treated some 40 cyclists for hypothermia after a fierce rainstorm swept across the course of the Tour de Big Bear in Southern California on Saturday.
The cyclists were riding at between 7,000 and 8,500 feet of elevation to reach Onyx Peak when the storm hit.
The showers lasted about 90 minutes as the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/08/04/hypothermia-greets-california-cyclists-on-high-elevation-century/
[Update: Aug. 5, 2014 — The Seattle-based entry – Denny – won the Bike Design Project competition. Congrats to the local design and prototype team.]
July 29, 2014 – Five teams of bike designers and builders from five cities are competing to create an urban utility bicycle that a major manufacturer says will be put …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/07/29/vote-for-your-favorite-urban-utility-bicycle-design-entries-from-seattle-portland-chicago-sf-and-nyc-you-can-vote/
The folks at the Oregon tourism department came up with a great idea a few years ago when they developed the first of 12 Oregon Scenic Bikeways.
It’s the first, and still the only, such program in the US. The routes are created with the help of local riders and range from a morning’s ride …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/07/27/how-to-tell-oregon-what-you-think-of-scenic-bikeways/
A bicyclist remembered as a renowned Iowa custom bike-frame builder collapsed during Monday’s stage of RAGBRAI and later was pronounced dead at a hospital. [Update: Later in the week, on Wednesday, a Sioux City man died of a heart attack in his tent. George “Frank” Brinkerhoff, 74, was president of the Siouxland Cyclists bike club. KTIV.com said he …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2014/07/23/custom-bike-frame-builder-dies-during-ragbrai/
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